Styled by Susie - anyone done it?

[Alanis41]

Hi all, I've been following the tribe group on Facebook for a while but just wondering if anyone here has tried it. I can't seem to get to the bottom of what they advise, seasons etc. Is there something similar closer to London. And she keeps advising chunky trainers, is this a thing now?

Is it really a style though as they all dress the same?

@Holdingtherope would you say the colour or shape analysis helped you more and did you already have an inkling of what you’d be?

Is this the right top for an Autumn strawberry girl next door with an edge? No. It would look shit on Elle MacPherson, love.

A waste of money trust me I fell for it!

Its a truly depressing page full of very, very ordinary, plain, generally overweight women who haven't a clue what looks good

I am an ordinary pretty ugly old overweight woman and I might not be overly adventurous with how I look but I know what I don’t want to look like.

The issue is the styling is all about how Suzie herself dresses and doesn’t take account of age or fat legs or hiding the wobbly bits or making the most of your cleavage or lack of it.

After analysing shape everyone appears to be dressed like a teenager.

Dd is very tall and very slim and 20 and brought home a dress that is in one of the photos on the Facebook page.

I actually told her to take it back because she looked too old for it. I think my words were you aren’t 12 years old any more.
Her friend apparently had said something similar.

I was looking at the photos on Facebook and thinking that the women really did need help.
They all seemed to be dressed like they had got stuck as teens in the 80s except they were grown women.
Then I realised they were the stylists.

Read an article about she had intervened when a girl in Primark had told her friend she looked dreadful in some sun glasses.

Isn’t that what true friends are supposed to do. Tell you the truth and not tell you that you look good in something when it doesn’t suit you and doesn’t do anything for you and makes you look dreadful

@Holdingtherope would you say the colour or shape analysis helped you more and did you already have an inkling of what you’d be?

@weareyoung @mulberypeony

Combination of both for me. I thought I was probably a pear and the analysis confirmed it. Season I didn’t know, although it explains why the black blouse that I brought to go with everything never felt right. By using the advice given, Including the personality, I found clothes that suited me. In fact, this evening I put on a dress I purchased as a direct result of the analysis, and my husband immediately complimented me on it. Pre-analysis, I would never have considered this style.

Thats interesting you found the "personality" aspect of the style analysis helpful. I find it absolutely baffling to have someone who doesn't know you make a decision on your style "personality" which surely is based on your own personality. I just find that aspect of it weird. I was analysed as girl next door with an edge (something like that) even though in my questionnaire I put how I like many different types of styles depending on mood, weather ect. Such as Bohemian, bit grungy ect.

If people are turning to sbs for help to find their style (ie they don't feel they have a style) how can sbs immediately tell them what their style personality is? If it was based on something, fair enough, but she seems to have some kind of Sorting Hat that she uses.

Personally if you are going down the "style personality rules" route, I like the Kibbe system as adapted by house of colour. I don't always follow the rules, but they make sense and I can't deny that the consultant got me "right". She wasn't great at explaining it though.

@WowStarsWow just had a quick look at the Kobe system and that seems to make a lot more sense. Going to do some more investigating but where I think I come out on that definitely resonates more with what suits me, physically and style personality than SBS

House of colour is so much better. The service is just completely different!

Today a woman with beau3, thick long hair has had it chopped into the hideous mumbob and darkened. It was her crowning glory and now she looks exactly like every other middle aged woman. I wonder if secretly Susie hates other women? I can think of no other reason to tell a woman with clearly uttey stunning hair, to cut it all off. That poor woman.

@Flappergasted I’ve just seen that post. I dislike the new length on her but the colour is even worse.

She's gone from being a stunning woman to a plain mouse.

Genuinely, why do you think they advise every single woman to cut their hair? There must be a reason. In my vast life experience, most women secretly hate beautiful women. And most men love long hair. So telling women to cut off their hair instantly de sexualises them to a greater extent.

@Flappergasted

Genuinely, why do you think they advise every single woman to cut their hair? There must be a reason. In my vast life experience, most women secretly hate beautiful women. And most men love long hair. So telling women to cut off their hair instantly de sexualises them to a greater extent.

I genuinely think that the vast majority of women look much better with shorter hair - long hair can really drag a face down and is very nondescript on most women and shorter hair often looks more stylish.

However, the one being referred to today doesn’t look great. The length is ok but I wouldn’t say it’s better than it was when it was long, but the colour doesn’t look good at all.

Susie got herself another DM paycheck

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8577153/Whos-patriotic-royal-dresser-post-lockdown.html

TBF it’s inoffensive on Susies part but the DM thinks Emilia Wickstead is a British designer, when she’s a New Zealander.

Oh well spotted, another Daily Mail contribution from Susie (who, let's not forget, champions the empowerment of women).

Now let's take a look at the current DM sidebar of shame (picture attached). Really empowering, that.

#stopfundinghate

Fucks sake I hate the daily mail

I had a look at the Kettlewell colours and style and thought they were spot on for both. If I were less lardy I would buy from there, they have some gorgeous colours.

I mentioned the hair analysis package today to my hairdresser and although she thought it was a great "money making idea" she did question firstly what happens if your current hair situation suits you & secondly does the analysis take into account peoples life styles & time they have to spend on their hair & thirdly whether they are able to afford the continued upkeep of certain hairstyles colours.

I just tried the kettlewell colour quiz but it only asked hair and eye colour (posters here have said should be on skin colour) and then the rest of the questions were my colour preferences. But just because I like certain colours doesn't mean they suit me? So I'm not convinced. I came out as a winter but I have no idea if I am actually that.